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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 22:32:47 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, hps@intermeta.de
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Subject: Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]
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>> Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:
>> 
>> > then 4->8, etc.  By your logic, someone should be sitting down and saying
>> > here is how you get to 128.  Other than myself, noone is doing that and
>> > I'm not really a Linux kernel hack, so I don't count.  
>> 
>> "No one that you know". I'm always surprised that you're able to speak
>> with such confidence. There may be lots of things going on that don't
>> daily report to you.
> 
> Right you are, but...  There is also piles of information that I absorb
> on a daily basis, and I'm always willing to be educated.  For example,
> you could educate me about all those 128 processor Linux boxes in the
> world and fill in a hole in my knowledge.  I'm listening...

SGI has machines bigger than 128 (if memory serves, 1024??) that I thought
had booted Linux. The Sequent/IBM NUMA-Q archictecture now supports Linux 
and would go to 64 procs if we removed a few bitmap limitations from the kernel 
that have been patched out before (well, actually 60 is easy, 64 would require
some more apic modifications). 

Anyway, bigger than 8 way is no pipedream. I'll admit few people could afford
such machines, but they do exist.

Martin.

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